Ray Lonnen

Raymond Stanley Lonnen (18 May 1940 – 11 July 2014) was an English stage and television actor. His most prominent roles include Willie Caine in the cold-war spy drama series The Sandbaggers (1978–80), and also as Harry Brown in the television miniseries Harry's Game (1982).

His early acting appearances include TV series such as Mrs Thursday (1966), The Power Game (1966) and Market in Honey Lane (1967), and a small role in the film Zeppelin (1971). He then had a semi-regular role in the British crime drama series Z-Cars as Detective Sergeant Terry Moffatt from 1972 to 1975, before becoming a regular when Moffatt was promoted to become the new D.I. for the series from 1976 to 1977. Lonnen appeared as Gardiner in "Frontier in Space", a 1973 episode of the cult TV series Doctor Who, [3] and as Knaggs, a wanted bankrobber/gangster in a 1975 episode of Public Eye.

Lonnen was unavailable to film what became the final series of Z-Cars in 1978 because he was cast in the ITV espionage series The Sandbaggers, in which he played Willie Caine ("Sandbagger One"), one of the leads. The Sandbaggers ran for three series in 1978 and 1980.

In 1984 Lonnen went on to star in yet another spy-themed drama series, The Brief, in which he played a British barrister who travels to Germany to represent a British soldier accused of spying and treason.

Throughout the 1990s Lonnen continued to make guest appearances in various television series and voiced several characters in the children's animated series Budgie the Little Helicopter. In 2001 he had a recurring role in the ITV police series The Bill. He appeared in several episodes of the Canadian sci-fi series Starhunter and had a recurring role in the short-lived revival of the ITV soap opera Crossroads.[3]